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Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive are heading out on the road together.

The bands announced Monday that they will embark on the co-headlining “Collapse The World Tour” on April 18 in San Francisco, CA. According to a news release from Metal Blade Records, KsE’s new label home, the tour is scheduled to run through May 16 in Milwaukee, WI and feature performances in cities, such as Houston, TX; Rockingham, NC and Detroit, MI.

After The Burial will serve as support on various dates. Revolver magazine is serving as the tour’s title sponsor.

Killswitch Engage front man Jesse Leach said in a recent interview that the band is looking forward to touring with Parkway Drive again.

“After having the pleasure of destroying stages all over Australia with the Parkway guys just over a month ago, we couldn’t be more stoked to share the stage with them once again, this time in the states,” Leach said. “Parkway Drive puts on an incredible live show, and we are excited to combine forces and bring the energy every night to a town near you. I am absolutely certain fans of both bands are in for a hell of a time. This will be one for the memories for sure — let’s rage!”

Parkway Drive front man Winston McCall echoed Leach’s sentiments.

“This co-headlining tour with Killswitch Engage is a landmark for Parkway Drive in North America,” McCall said. “Having smashed our way across the land for over a decade now, it is a humbling and defining moment to be sharing this slot with true heavy metal icons and personal heroes. We have always aimed to maintain the highest standard of energy, connection and entertainment at our shows, a standard that has been set and maintained by KsE their entire career. The concept of how epic this tour will be is mind blowing to me. Bring on the insanity!”

The band debuted the songs ‘For You Forever‘ and ‘Dancing With The Devil‘ on Dec. 14. The songs are the third and fourth singles to come from Midnight, which is currently scheduled for release Feb. 1 via Fearless Records.

The video for the album’s lead single, ‘Killer in the Mirror‘ debuted July 24, while the video for its follow-up, ‘Lonely Dance‘ premiered Nov. 19. The album’s full, 15-song track listing is noted below.

Set It Off front man Cody Carson explained the concept behind both of the band’s new songs in a recent interview. Carson said ‘For You Forever’ is a work that looks back on his own past relationships, and examines how much he has grown and changed over time.

“About ‘For You Forever,” [It’s] my way of putting myself in the shoes of someone else when I was single,” Carson said. “I was stubborn, I didn’t want a serious relationship, and I’d always let the other person know that. However, sometimes feelings grew, and I pushed them away because I felt I wasn’t ready, but it wouldn’t always stop them from waiting for me. This song collects the multitude of emotions that circulated through those situations from start, to end, to even how their friends may have advised them. It was a seriously humbling and vulnerable song to write, but sometimes you have to call yourself out.”

He said of ‘Dancing With The Devil’ that it focuses on certain negative situations in life, and the role that those situations play in our personal development.

“‘Dancing With The Devil’ is a story of betrayal,” Carson said. “It unfortunately happens more often than it should that someone we work with or someone we get close to in our lives feeds us lines of support and love, reels us in with a false sense of connection, and then whenever they feel like we can’t feed their needs, they cut the line and watch us drown. To me, that severance is fuel. That betrayal and abandonment is a reason to prove something, and the chip on the shoulder grows. This world is a tough place, but we have to be tougher and keep our eyes open so we don’t end up ‘Dancing With The Devil.’

Pre-orders for Midnight are open now. The album was produced by Mike Green (Neck Deep, All Time Low, State Champs) and Brandon Paddock (Panic! At The Disco, Papa Roach, The Used, Daughtry).

Courtesy: Fearless Records

Set It Off is scheduled to launch a North American tour in support of Midnight on Feb. 15 in Las Vegas, NV. The tour is currently scheduled to run through March 24 and feature performances in cities nationwide, such as, Greesnboro, NC; Cleveland Heights, OH and Salt Lake City, UT. The tour’s current schedule is noted below.

The countdown to the end of the year is officially on, and with that countdown on, many critics — if not most — are either submitting their year-ender lists or have already done just that. Now this critic is joining those ranks with the first of many year-enders to come in the form of the year’s Top 10 New EPs.

Those who have followed this critic’s daily ramblings year in and year out know that the year-enders have always started with the smallest records, the EPs, and this year is no different. This year has seen a variety of interesting EPs released from across the musical universe.

Veteran rock band Sister Hazel is joined on this critic’s list this year with not one, but two new EPs — Wind and Water. Each one stands out in its own right. Also worth noting this year are new releases from the likes of up-and-coming hard rock/prog-metal outfit Hyvmine, World Music act Te’Amir, with two of its own new EPs and pop country artist Max Ater among many others.

As with every year past, this critic’s list features not 10, but 15 titles. The top 10 titles are the primary titles, while the next five are honorable mention titles. With everything noted, here with out any further ado, is Phil’s Picks Top 10 New EPs of 2018.

PHIL’S PICKS 2018 TOP 10 NEWEPs

Monophonics — Mirrors

Hyvmine — Fight or Flight

Sister Hazel — Water

Sister Hazel — Wind

Memphis Ukulele Band — Holidays Ain’t The Same

Grand Canyon — Grand Canyon

Max Ater — Small Town

Te’Amir — Abyssinia

Te’Armi — Abyssinia Rise

Sammy Johnson — Midnight Lovers

Sevi Ettinger — Salty Water

Facing Fire — Facing Fire

Ali McManus — Unbreakable

Doc Rotten — Sick & Suffering

Anialator — Rise To Supremacy

Up next from Phil’s Picks is this year’s Top 10 New Rap and Hip-Hop Albums. That list features some well-known and not-so-well-known names and titles. Stay tuned for that, too.

The movie is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray Tuesday as part of the company’s ongoing Shout! Select series. Originally released Dec. 14, 1979 via Universal Pictures, the movie is considered by many to be Martin’s breakout movie.

The story stars Martin as Navin Johnson, the adopted son of a poor, black sharecropping family in Mississippi. Johnson heads out into the world on his own to find his “special purpose,” which leads to meetings with a would-be assassin, work with the circus and gas stations, an encounter with a service dog, a romance and a financial windfall. Navi’s new-found fame and fortune leads to plenty of its own problems for the hapless man.

Shout! Factory’s new re-issue of the classic comedy features a handful of bonuses, including, but not limited to two new interviews with Martin and Reiner, and with the writing team of Michael Elias and Carl Gottlieb. The full list of the movie’s bonus material is noted below.

Bonus Features:

· NEW Remastered from a Brand-New 2K Transfer

· NEW A Conversation with Steve Martin and Carl Reiner

· NEW A Conversation with Writers Michael Elias and Carl Gottlieb

· Learn How to Play “Tonight You Belong To Me”

· The Lost Film Strips of Father Carols Las Vegas De Cordova

· Trailers & Radio Spots

More information on this and other titles from Shout! Factory is available online now at:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is scheduled for release on Blu-ray on Jan. 22. Pre-orders are open now.

MGM’s 1989 riotous comedy finds Freddy Benson (Steve Martin — The Jerk, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Little Shop of Horrors) — and Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine — Secondhand Lions, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises) — as a pair of con men who make a bet with one another: The first to swindle a wealthy heiress out of $50,000 wins the bet while the other leaves town. The deal comes from a sort of comedy of errors, which is set off by Lawrence believing Freddy is a nefarious con man called “The Jackal.” When it is revealed that he is not “The Jackal,” the bet is set, and leads to plenty of comedy and laughs.

Shout! Factory’s upcoming re-issue of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels features the movie presented in a new 2K scan, a new bonus interview with script writer Dale Launer and feature-length audio commentary with director Frank Oz.

More information on this and other titles from Shout! Factory is available online now at:

Shout! Factory will re-issue the modern classic as part of its ongoing Shout! Select series on Jan. 8. in a special 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition release with 4K scan and bonus material. Those bonuses include a new interview with Director Rob Reiner (Misery, Stand By Me) and lead star Billy Crystal (Monsters Inc., Monsters University, City Slickers) as well as two separate feature-length audio commentaries, deleted scenes, “making of” documentary and more.

The full listing of the movie’s bonus material is noted below.

Special Features:

NEW transfer restored from a 4K scan of the original camera negative

NEW Scenes from a Friendship – interview with Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal

Audio Commentary with Rob Reiner, Nora Ephron, And Billy Crystal

Audio Commentary with Rob Reiner

How Harry Met Sally Documentary

Vintage Featurettes

Deleted Scenes

Theatrical Trailer

Music Video by Harry Connick Jr.

When Harry Met Sally centers on the love story between Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan — Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, City of Angels) as the pair’s paths cross time and again following their graduation from The University of Chicago. Eventually, the pair reunites and is forced to come to terms with their situation and determine if a man and woman can just be friends, or if there is more to their friendship than they are admitting to themselves and one another.

When Harry Met Sally also co-stars the late, great Carrie Fisher (Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) and Bruno Kirby (City Clickers, Good Morning, Vietnam, Sleepers). Pre-orders are open now.

More information on this and other titles from Shout! Factory are available online now at:

Forget the sock gnomes. We now know what really happens to all of the socks that go missing.

The answer lies in Film Movement and Omnibus Entertainment’s new quirky animated — and Dove Award-winning — family film Oddsockeaters. Scheduled for release domestically on January 8, this movie tells the story of a group of creatures that eats people’s socks. They are, fittingly called Oddsockeaters, but one of them doesn’t want to be like all the rest.

Hugo wants to see what is beyond the world of the Oddsockeaters. He goes out into the world and moves in with his uncle “Big Boss” and his cousins, “Big Boss”‘ sons. He also meets “The Professor,” a human bent on revealing the Oddsockeaters, and a rival gang of Oddsockeaters known as The Blades.

Hugo’s coming-of-age story teaches families invaluable lessons about family, love and the true meaning of loyalty. A trailer for the movie is streaming online now here.

Courtesy: Film Movement/Omnibus Entertainment

Oddsockeaters is based on the best-selling book series by author Pavel Srut. The movie originally debuted in its home nation of The Czech Republic Oct. 20, 2016. It was initially released on DVD internationally via Thunderbird Releasing March 18, 2018.

Oddsockeaters is expected to retail for MSRP of $24.95. Its run time is listed at 87 minutes. More information on this and other titles from Film Movement is available online now at: